Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!liz From: liz@umcp-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news Subject: Re: Fantastic Elastic Plastic USENET address Message-ID: <3606@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 15:02:33 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.3606 Posted: Sat Nov 5 15:02:33 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 01:08:53 EST References: <3599@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 22 Another solution is to hack an interface directly to mail. In vnews, someone here has hacked a command "m" which does a "mail -f
". That puts you in mail where you can use the mailer's "r" command to reply to the article and the mailer will automatically generate the best route to use. We use mmdf which can take an address like: user@site and turn it into the appropriate ...!site!user if site is a usenet site or send it via the CSNET if the site is an ARPANET host or a CSNET host. Btw, the where-mail program that umcp-cs!zben mentioned was one that I wrote a while back when I was having problems and wondering how mail was being routed. I don't know how transportable it is; it uses the mmdf tables to look up routes, etc. I can mail it to people if they are interested. The code that looks up the usenet tables may be adoptable to other sites -- or you could use the front end of nmail. -Liz -- Liz Allen, Univ of Maryland, College Park MD Usenet: ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz Arpanet: liz%umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay